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Roblox CEO delivers imperial announcement that the goal is '1 billion daily active users' and 10% of all global gaming revenue, thanks

www.pcgamer.com Roblox CEO delivers imperial announcement that the goal is '1 billion daily active users' and 10% of all global gaming revenue, thanks

I mean why not, sure.

Roblox CEO delivers imperial announcement that the goal is '1 billion daily active users' and 10% of all global gaming revenue, thanks

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My much more resonable goal is to never play Roblox.
- I decided to try guilded.gg as an alternative to discord finally, only to find out they now require a Roblox account to log in. So much for that idea.
  
  Matrix.org is a good alternative, teamspeak's new client also uses the matrix protocol
  
  I used to run a Mumble server at home on an RPi, the sound was way better than Discord, but I didn't like how it made my IP appear on shodan, I also didn't like needing to keep it updated.
  
  I work in IT, I don't want to work at home.
  
  So I moved to using Steam, but due to network issues on my end that didn't work, so we moved to Discord.
- Minecraft modpacks all the way baby. Just wish mojang never sold out
  
  Wdym??? Are you not excited for Corporate Soullessness: The Movie?????
- It's free. If you never buy a hat, you are actively hurting them.
  
  Not true, you're pumping their numbers up, which increases their valuation.
  
  By playing you are contributing to other players enjoyment and engagement in the game passively encouraging them to buy hats
  
  Active players can be much more important than people who spend money, since spenders aren't going to drop money on a game they think is going to die. Whales themselves don't hold up a game if the player base is low, since it's many little guppies dropping their spare change that support the games as a service economy as a collective.
and absolutely no linux. fuck those kids.
- Inoculate your kids against Roblox, today!
1 billion? Are they hoping for the boomers to drive this home? Good luck Roblox
PeopleMakeGames has a great video about how Roblox makes money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

And the followup when they got heat from roblox in response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
- Spoiler: it's child exploitation
  
  Should definitely still watch the videos. The full extent of the exploitation is sickening.
  
  The best kid of exploitation.
- Holy smokes I had a bad gut feeling from the little I had seen of the game and some comments others have made but I had no idea the extent of the company’s depravity. Thank you so much for posting the videos these were very helpful.
  
  A lead Roblox dev went to prison recently for locking up children in his basement. It's actually crazy how far you have to dig to find this news. But he got two life sentences
  
  Anyone remember Shedletsky? Yeah that's him
10% of all global gaming revenue? Does that include mobile games?

How close are they to that now? It doesn't seem like they're even as big as Minecraft.
- Dude that's not even close to the most insane part. They expect one in every 8 humans on the whole earth to play EVERY DAY.
  
  I didn't count, is that how many there are? WOW, that's a big ask. I think I'll do my part and die someday to make room for another whatever this game is we're talking about player
How fucking delusional do you have to be to earnestly suggest that this is your goal
- He's the ceo of a kids drug, ofc he's delusional. I just ran into another roblox addicted kid a few weeks ago. Good luck getting that shit out of their brains!
  
  Not just a drug, also the largest child labour force!
That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.
No you misunderstand, they want to fix the shrinking birthrates and help developing nations get wealthy enough to have internet access and disposable income! And also fix global overpopulation symptoms! They're not delusional about having 1/8 of the planet's population as a user base, they're philanthropists!
- what stage of capitalism is it when Roblox tries to make you have more babies so they can get them into their child labor game
  
  Sounds like roblox stage capitalism. Or slave owner mindset, I guess? Buy 2 slaves, force them to breed nonstop for extra slaves, profit
This just in, Roblox is reportedly in talks with Kaminoans to pump out 100 million new Roblox users ever month, starting April 2027
No. Roblox sucks.
Roblox plans to surpass NVIDIA in market cap
Kids will realize some day what garbage Roblox actually is. And then the ride will be over.
- What’s more likely is adulthood + next generation enthralled at a different game
You're welcome!
Roblox is evil? That sucks, just picked up the game like a week ago cus an old friend of mine plays it frequently and I wanted to tag along sigh
Business man does business. Lemmites find a way to get pissed off at this.
- It really is the theme.

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